Eleutherodactylus montanus Schmidt, 1919

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus > Species: Eleutherodactylus montanus

Eleutherodactylus montanus Schmidt, 1919, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 41: 519. Holotype: AMNH 6434, by original designation. Type locality: "mountainous interior of the Province of Azua, [República Dominicana,] Santo Domingo"; restricted by Schwartz, 1965 "1964", Caribb. J. Sci., 4: 478, to Alto Bandera, La Vega Province, República Dominicana.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) montanusHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.

Common Names

Dominican Mountain Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Hispaniolan Montane Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11). 

Distribution

High elevations (1270–2424 m) in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic

Endemic: Dominican Republic

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Schwartz, 1965 "1964", Caribb. J. Sci., 4: 473–474. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus montanus series, unassigned to species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians species series, Eleutherodactylus montanus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 62, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 129. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 359. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 66, summarized the natural history literature.

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